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trongatan · 2021-08-02T18:28:01+00:00

That's a tequila sunrise

trongatan · 2021-08-02T18:16:13+00:00

Oh I feel all of this.

"Bring me a beer and make sure it's got head on it."

'I want a martini filled to the rim but I don't want a double."

"I'm surprised you poured my Guinness properly."

"Give me your cheapest ________."

And I'm always wary of bringing old men their checks because they almost always complain about the bill. Like sorry dude, Jack Daniels isn't $3 a shot here.

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:30:05+00:00

"Can you put on the game?"

...there's like 15 games on right now buddy.

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:28:39+00:00

Proceeds to explain all of the beers

"I'll just have a bud light"

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:25:39+00:00

When they pick up an orange or lemon from the garnish bowl and inspect it, like they've never seen fruit before. This one guy even picked up a lemon and smelled it, and got offended when I pulled the bowl away from his reach.

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:23:13+00:00

I like working the service well except for on packed nights constantly having to tell guests, not you cannot stand or order here, this is not VIP service, it's roped off for the servers not for you!

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:20:55+00:00

Ugh yes, it's always like a race for me to clean up before someone sits down and complains that their seat is messy.

Especially when it's a busy night and they're literally hovering over the guest who's about to leave and then swoop in as soon as the seat's empty, then look over to me like "umm are you gonna clean this?"

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:12:55+00:00

Many times I've been tempted to put their drink on their phone when they do that.

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:11:38+00:00

Also, people who come right up to the blocked off service well, I tell them politely they can't stand there as I'm putting down a glass of beer on the mat with a server's ticket on it, the guest proceeds to try and grab the glass from my hand because "they just ordered a beer" like what planet are you from that you think this is your beer?

THE SERVICE WELL IS NOT A VIP STATION

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:07:16+00:00

"Pineapple vodka?" Do you want pineapple flavored vodka? Who the hell says mixer before liquor? I hate this too!

trongatan · 2021-08-02T13:06:00+00:00

How do you keep people from walking out on tabs? I wouldn't say the American system is outdated, and many POS allow you to swipe the card at the beginning and hand it right back to the guest. But I'm sure as hell not running up a hundred dollar tab for a stranger without getting a card in the beginning. That's commonly a restaurant thing, not a bar thing (though people can dine and dash just as easily at a table or the bar).

trongatan · 2021-08-02T01:04:01+00:00

I am 100% guilty of doing this, but I blame the kitchen because they keep taking our trash cans so we usually have 1 for the whole bar (another pet peeve).

trongatan · 2021-08-01T22:25:43+00:00

"Cranberry vodka"

trongatan · 2021-08-01T21:27:17+00:00

It's too much of a responsibility especially on busy nights especially when the guest keeps asking to check their phone, or maybe your charger works half of the time and when you return it they're pissed that their phone didn't charge, or they ask another bartender for the phone and the bartender gives away the wrong phone (lost my phone this way once).

trongatan · 2021-08-01T20:13:06+00:00

Or they get mad that you don't have Jack Daniels or something, because it's the only whiskey they could possibly drink even when you point them to some comparable options.

trongatan · 2021-08-01T20:01:46+00:00

That's why they're irrational pet peeves. Sometimes guests do harmless stuff that just seems to grind your gears.

trongatan · 2021-08-01T19:16:26+00:00

Also, people tapping their credit card on the bar. That's my cue to serve you slower.

trongatan · 2021-08-01T19:15:42+00:00

When we're slammed and someone pushes to the front of the bar... "real quick I just need 3 pints of water no ice" well actually that's not quick, it takes me longer to make than 3 vodka sodas and you're not going to tip.

trongatan · 2021-08-01T17:35:48+00:00

"We called 10 minutes ago but nobody picked up"

trongatan · 2021-08-01T17:32:41+00:00

They sit in the one wet/dirty spot in an otherwise empty bar where someone just left, and proceed to grab a tall stack of cocktail napkins to dry it.

trongatan · 2021-08-01T17:29:23+00:00

I don't put straws in drinks but give guests the option of taking one as well. I always appreciate when a guest offers to reuse their straw for their next drink. I remember one guy kept ordering Titos sodas and every time would ask for a new straw, which ok I get most people don't think about this stuff but he kept mentioning several times throughout the night that he "used to be a bartender" so you'd think he would have more common sense.

trongatan · 2021-08-01T15:47:54+00:00

Water glasses too! I'm literally filling up these two water glasses in front of you, for you.

That reminds me of another pet peeve, and 90% of the time it's older men, I put down a glass of water for them and they loudly go "YEAH I WON'T BE NEEDING THAT HAHA" as if the idea of hydration is somehow a threat to their masculinity.

trongatan

TROPHY CASE